aschrijver reports a regression in version 2026.11.0-latest where editing a wiki post that is the last message in a locked topic no longer bumps the topic to the top of the topic list. Previously, users employed a trick involving locking the topic and deleting notification posts to ensure wiki edits appeared as the latest activity, making them visible to the community. chapoi explains that this change is intentional, part of a broader update where “small posts” and minor actions no longer trigger topic bumps to reduce noise. However, aschrijver argues that this has the unintended side effect of making wiki edits invisible, as they no longer surface in the topic list. chapoi acknowledges the difficulty in distinguishing between trivial edits and significant wiki updates, stating that reverting the change is unlikely and suggesting a feature request might be necessary.
aschrijver expresses concern that this behavior renders wiki functionality less useful for collaborative data maintenance, such as curated lists, because updates go unnoticed. renato suggests that editing the wiki post if it is the Original Post (OP) should still bump the topic. aschrijver initially misunderstood, thinking renato meant editing a post above the wiki, but later confirms that having the wiki post as the OP does indeed bump the topic upon edit. aschrijver accepts this as a workaround but notes it imposes constraints, such as requiring the wiki to be the first post rather than allowing an instructional first post. They reiterate a preference for a solution that bumps topics upon editing the last post if it is a wiki, regardless of its position in the thread.
In the past I made a request that an edit to a wiki posted bumped the topic to show at the top of the topic list, because otherwise wiki edits would be easily missed and go by unnoticed.
That feature request was not honored. But there was a trick to get a similar result:
Make sure that the wiki post is the last message posted in the topic thread.
Lock the topic thread so that no further replies can be added.
Delete the notification on locking the thread, so that the wiki post comes last again.
Though a bit unwieldy, requiring staff interaction, this used to worked. But in 2026.11.0-latest no longer.
On Social coding commons forum I maintain the backlog for fediverse-related Delightful commons curated lists. There are frequent additions, and I want both forum members and the public to be aware of them, and encourage to add their own entries to the wiki. But since the topic is not bumped after an edit, it scrolls out of view, does not get attention.
Is this behavior as it should be? And if yes, is it desirable behavior?
Thank you. I deleted the small posts, so the large wiki post is last in the thread. The unintended (I think) side effect of the change is that edits to the wiki no longer lead to a bump as they did before.
Yes, I do think that’s a side-effect because as far as I’m aware, we don’t distinguish between “regular edit typo” and “edit was made to a wiki”. An easy solution based on topic type would be janky (edit can be a typo fix in a wiki too), and an elegant solution would not be easy.
I understand the wiki use case, but we most likely won’t revert this change. Could be worth a feature request, if enough other users have the same issue.
So the change is not just that “small posts” don’t bump the topic, but also edits to the last post don’t.
For me not bumping would make Wiki Posts wholly unusable functionality, since changes would go unnoticed. I use them quite a lot, and they are a handy feature. They are also collectively edited data, so you want the collective to become aware of changes.
Ah yes, that works. I tried on a different wiki post that is the only one in the thread. Happy that that works, at least, though it is yet another constraint.
I used the first post in the thread as uneditable instruction posts for editing the wiki below it. This is often useful to explain what kind of information to be collected in the wiki and how to format it, etcetera. And without ‘polluting’ the wiki contents with those instructions (wiki markdown is regularly copied to other non-forum locations).
But I accept this as a workaround. Though “bump upon edit, if the last post is a wiki” would have my preference.
